Episode 108: How to Hack Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Other SaaS Products With Aaron Costello
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast30 Tammi 2025

Episode 108: How to Hack Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Other SaaS Products With Aaron Costello

Episode 108: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joseph bring on Aaron Costello to discuss SaaS security and misconfigurations as a bug class. He also gives some in-depth examples from Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Power Pages.

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====== Resources ======

Aaron's Blog

https://www.enumerated.ie/

Data Exposure and ServiceNow: The Elephant in the ITSM Room

https://www.enumerated.ie/index/servicenow-data-exposure

Salesforce Lightning - An in-depth look at exploitation vectors for the everyday community

https://www.enumerated.ie/index/salesforce

Lightning Components: A Treatise on Apex

Security from an External Perspective

https://go.appomni.com/hubfs/Collateral/AppOmni_Labs_White_Paper_Apex_Security.pdf?utm_campaign=Network%20Computing&utm_source=referral&utm_content=network_computing

Microsoft Power Pages: Data Exposure Reviewed

https://appomni.com/ao-labs/microsoft-power-pages-data-exposure-reviewed/

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:00) Aaron Costello, Arbitrary File Upload, & App Cache Manifest Poison bug

(00:13:37) SAAS Misconfigurations as a bug class

(00:43:27) SalesForce Misconfigurations

(01:11:30) Microsoft Power Pages

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